AMES, Iowa (CNN) - Republican presidential candidate Sam Brownback fired a few shots today, though not at any of his opponents.

The Kansas senator spent some time on a shooting range in Ames, Iowa - a town also known for a certain well-known straw poll coming up August 11 - and emphasized his position on gun rights to a group of reporters.

"We have a Second Amendment," Brownback said. "It is a right to bear arms, and those should be stood by and those should be honored as a right an individual has."

Brownback said he holds an 'A' rating from the National Rifle Association but that he is not currently a member. The campaign said he's hunted on several occasions.

"I don't think there should be more gun control. I think there should be more education," he said.

Brownback fired an AR-15 rifle. And in case you're wondering, he didn't quite hit the bull's-eye but wasn't too far off from the target either.

"Am I low, high?" Brownback asked after his first shots. "Where'd that go?"

CNN, why do you waste an entire page right here on a theocrat that is going nowhere, and NRO has a fantastic two-day debate about Ron Paul (the future savior of the GOP, it is true) and you refuse to get in on the action? Come on folks ... THAT IS THE REAL STORY, not the fact that Brownback doesn't know WHY we have a 2nd Amendment (to protect us FROM THE GOV'T and INVASION) or that he can't hit the broad side of a barn.